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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we care about a six year old article in Edweek?  All one has to do is compare percentage of class graduating with 4.0 at local publics v. Local privates 
When many of the pubkic schools have 20 percent or more of kids with 4.0, that’s grade inflation.  You won’t find that at top local private schools.  Not sure why there is even a dispute about this.[/quote]

I think there is a lot of nuance here:  First, these groups are not monolithic, especially privates as they are governed independently.  Second, thinking of my kid's private, I have no doubt there is grade inflation compared to a few generations ago.  There is a lot of written history that makes me think kids used to earn Cs and still get into Ivy league schools.  But at the same time, since there are no weighted grades the inflation is pretty slow.  No one has a perfect GPA or above a perfect GPA.

So, while kids across the board are getting higher averages than previous generations of students (say average used to be C and now a B), they also have lower averages than peers at schools where there are weighted grades a bunch of kids above a 4.0 A+ average.[/quote]

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